Transcript of "Building the Social Web with OpenID"

4.
Four problems
• Usernames and passwords suck
• Signing up for new accounts is a pain
• My online identity exists in dozens of
different places
• Social software suffers from too much
overhead

5.
Four problems
(and their OpenID related solutions)
• Usernames and passwords suck
• Signing up for new accounts is a pain
• My online identity exists in dozens of
different places
• Social software suffers from too much
overhead

7.
“We want to make you aware that media of ours
that contained a backup of a portion of the reddit
database was stolen recently [...] we wanted to
alert you to the possibility that your username,
password, and -- in some cases -- e-mail address
may have been compromised.
”
Steve Huffman, reddit.com

8.
Two lessons
• Don’t store plaintext passwords in
your application’s database
• Don’t use the same password
on more than one site!